Warren Buffett On The 2008 Crisis

When the banks began to fail in 2008, executives turned to Warren Buffett in a plea for lastminute funding. He later called the events that followed an economic Pearl Watch the premiere of the CNBC Original Crisis On Wall Street: The Week That Shook The World Wednesday, at 10pm ET, PT. Ten years after the fall of Lehman Brothers, CNBC has produced the definitive televised account of the historic bankruptcy and cascade of events over a September weekend in 2008 that led to the worst financial crisis in generations. In this prime time original documentary, Andrew Ross Sorkin, CNBC anchor and author of the groundbreaking bestseller Too Big to Fail, reports on how the nation and the world came as close as ever to a full economic collapse. The story is told through gripping interviews with those at the highest reaches of the U. S. government as well as the CEOs of the nations largest banks who gathered to try to save Lehman Brothers from failure. Wa